I Tried to Make AI Writing Sound Human by Banning AI Words Through logit_bias
I tried to make AI writing sound more human with logit_bias, an API setting that changes how likely a model is to select specific…
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Building an AI-Friendly Codebase
This post explores practical strategies for making your codebase more AI-friendly. The goal isn't to constrain your architecture to AI limitations, but to find…
Read postPick Your Fights: A Pragmatic Approach to Coding with AI
Parents learn to "pick their fights," understanding that not every small disagreement warrants a battle. This wisdom translates remarkably well to the realm of…
Read postAI in 2025: Two Major Shifts
The ability to train competitive AI models at 1/45th the traditional cost is fundamentally changing who can develop AI systems and what they can…
Read postShould I Implement Soft Deletes In My Laravel Spark-Based Billing System?
I recently investigated whether I should (or needed to) add soft deletes to my Laravel Spark-based billing system. Laravel Spark for Paddle is a…
Read postDeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls
Last week, DeepSeek unveiled their V3 model, trained on just 2,048 H800 GPUs - a fraction of the hardware used by OpenAI or Meta.…
Read postAnalyzing a Year of Hacker News Traffic
After several of my blog posts made it to the Hacker News front page over the past year, I decided to dive deep into…
Read postTrae AI IDE: ByteDance’s Answer to Cursor
ByteDance recently launched Trae, a new AI-powered IDE that's generating buzz in the developer community. As someone who has extensively analyzed various AI coding…
Read postStartup Winter: Hacker News Lost its Faith
In 2013, a failing founder posted their story on Hacker News (link). The responses were overwhelmingly supportive: "Failure is just an event, not who…
Read postDon’t Run `composer install` in Production Without `–no-dev`
When running composer install without any flags, all dependencies are installed - including development packages that have no place in a production environment. Security…
Read postCursor is Anthropic’s Largest Customer (and Maxing Out Their GPUs)
Cursor is Anthropic's Largest Customer and is apparently hitting the limits of what their GPU infrastructure can handle....Read More...
Read postHow to Localize Laravel Spark in Apps Using Laravel-Localization
Make Laravel Spark work with language prefixes when using mcamara/laravel-localization in your multilingual Laravel application....Read More...
Read postUnderstanding Shared Data Overrides in Inertia.js
Page-specific data returned from your controller will override Inertia shared data with the same key. This can lead to unexpected behavior....Read More...
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